Tissue Staining and Coverslipping

Tissue Staining

Haematoxylin & Eosin Stain

Fully automated staining system for H&E

Coverslipping

Automated coverslipping provides a fast and effective method of coverslipping slides. The enclosed unit reduces exposure to xylene fumes and consistent laying of coverslips prevents air bubbles!

Special Stains

We have a wide range of stains and protocols including:

Connective Tissue Stains	Neuropathology
Gomori’s One Step Trichrome Gordon & Sweet Retic Luna’s Method for Mast Cells Martius Scarlet Blue Massons Trichrome PTAH Toludine Blue Verhoeff’s Van Gieson Wilder’s Reticulum	Cresyl Violet Luxol Fast Blue PTAH Nissl Substance Bodians
	Lipids
	Oil Red 'O' Sudan Black
Carbohydrate Stains	Microbiology
Alcian Blue Alcian Blue/PAS Colloidal Iron + PAS Congo Red Crystal Violet for Amyloid Mucicarmine PAS PAS + Diastase Safranin O Sirius Red for Amyloid	Auramine-Rhodamine Brown & Hopps Gram Giemsa Gram Twort’s Stain Grocotts’s Methenamine Silver Orcein (Hep B) PAS for fungi Steiner Silver Modified Steiner Stain Wade Fite for Acid Fast Bacilli Warthin Starry for Spirochetes Ziehl-Neelson
Pigments & Minerals
Alizarin Red S Von Kossa Perls Prussion Blue Melanin Bleach

Please contact us to discuss your staining requirements.

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Contact

Histology & Microscopy Unit
School of Medical Sciences
Room G16, Ground Floor
Wallace Wurth Building
UNSW Sydney
NSW 2052
T (02) 9385 2469
E m.sarris@unsw.edu.au

Courier Address
School of Medical Sciences
Lowy Cancer Research Centre (C25)
Lower Ground Goods Store
Via Gate 11, Botany Street
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052

Opening Hours
8.30am - 6.00pm, Monday to Friday

See also:
Histology Services Request Form
Digital Images
Online HMU Booking System (Registration and Login required)
Electron Microscope Unit
Biomedical Imaging Facility